Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories

by Mark Twain

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Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories is by Mark Twain, and its contents list The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton. The contents also list On the Decay of the Art of Lying, About Magnanimous-Incident Literature, Punch, Brothers, Punch and The Great Revolution in Pitcairn. A piece headed The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton is set on a bitter winter's day, when the town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen.

Christian brought suit in the courts, the case lingered several years in an ascending grade of courts, and finally the thing got into the supreme court, where it stuck for twenty years. A speaker says that if one asks how old a man is, the Briton answers He will be about forty, while in the American language we should say He is about forty.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".